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Free From Debt

12 October 2024 Print version    PDA version    
Matthew 5:17: 'Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.'

When the Bible says Jesus 'fulfilled' law for us, the term it uses literally means he 'leveled up, completed, satisfied, or made replete' the law on our behalf. It's actually an accounting word. When you or your auditor is doing your tax return, the ledge must be made to balance up: credits equaling debits, incoming equaling outgoings. Where the Old Testament law was concerned, I was 'in the red' before Christ. But Jesus leveled up my total so that I am 'in the black'. Unlike the Pharisees, Jesus saw beyond the regulations of the law to the priorities that God was trying to show us through those laws. Once I owed God big-time! Now my balance sheet is clear. For the first time, I am free from debt to God. I now have the power to take up the values behind God's Old Testament rules without adhering to all the specific regulations! That's grace.

Prayer: 'Lord, help me today to live in and enjoy your grace, but to remember that to walk in grace I must walk in your truth.'

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